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Marvels of the Modern Age

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Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of seasons
  
1

Executive producer(s)
  
Basil Comely

First episode date
  
May 2006

Number of seasons
  
1

Number of episodes
  
4

Original language(s)
  
English

No. of episodes
  
4

Distributor
  
BBC

Final episode date
  
30 May 2006

Presented by
  
Dan Cruickshank

Genre
  
Television documentary

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Dan Cruickshank's Marvels of the Modern Age is a BBC documentary series in which Dan Cruickshank traces the roots of Modernism and focuses on the movement's leading lights, such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, and the century's most seismic political events including the rise of Nazi Germany.

The series was first broadcast on BBC Two between 9 and 30 May 2006 to coincides with the exhibition Modernism: Designing a New World at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

References

Marvels of the Modern Age Wikipedia